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Mrs. KV and I were away for the weekend with family. And wouldn't you know it? Cut off from any meaningful internet connection, I missed the breaking of the biggest story of 2009 (and probably the biggest story of the first decade of this, the 21st century).

An Elegant Chaos have put up a searchable database of the content of the material leaked onto the internet. Moreover, comments made by CRU staff indicate not all of the stolen material has been leaked, so we possibly may look forward to more revelations about the 'climate change consensus' and the bully boys that tried to enforce it.

It all adds up to a picture where analysis was done on irreparably corrupted data, using models that are purposefully 'adjusted' to give the desired result and (unethical, unbecoming and possibly illegal) attempts to prevent anyone from finding out the extent of the rot, the corruption that beseeches 'climate science', while being funded by stakeholders that have a vested interest in a certain outcome (and it isn't 'big oil' either).

The jury is still out on whether the material was hacked or leaked, apparently. If it was leaked, we at KV have a new hero. If it was hacked, we do think justice must be served. But we hope the hackers are put in front of a sympathetic judge and jury. And we at KV still have a new hero.

Finally, these huckstering snake-oil salesmen and “global warming” profiteers — for that is what they are — have written to each other encouraging the destruction of data that had been lawfully requested under the Freedom of Information Act in the UK by scientists who wanted to check whether their global temperature record had been properly compiled. And that procurement of data destruction, as they are about to find out to their cost, is a criminal offense. They are not merely bad scientists — they are crooks. And crooks who have perpetrated their crimes at the expense of British and U.S. taxpayers.

Senator Inhofe: Well, on this thing, it is pretty serious. And since, you know, Barabara Boxer is the Chairman and I'm the Ranking Member on Environment and Public Works, if nothing happens in the next seven days when we go back into session a week from today that would change this situation, I will call for an investigation. 'Cause this thing is serious, you think about the literally millions of dollars that have been thrown away on some of this stuff that they came out with.

Melanie Morgan: So what will you be calling for an investigation of?

Senator Inhofe: On the IPCC and on the United Nations on the way that they cooked the science to make this thing look as if the science was settled, when all the time of course we knew it was not.

[UPDATE003] And to put insult to injury, reader Herman Benschop points us to a paper (pdf) arguing the Greenhouse conjecture cannot hold for planetary climate: It doesn't compute with thermodynamics.